all republicants have is the "JOBS! LIFE! JESUS!" Mantra, yet they constantly try to destroy education on every level. Theyve cut funding for primary education, and helped make College so expensive that people choose not to go. The EDUCATED are the job creators, the under-educated are the job avoiders... if Reds wanted to help jobs they would first cultivate a culture of the intellectual...but why would they? Statistics prove that the educated class tend to hate the idea of being a Republican. Keep'em stupid, keep'em Republican.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Perry can rot in hell Nine Things We Won’t Miss About Rick Perry 1. He allowed Texas to become the nation’s worst polluter. Texas under Perry has led the nation in carbon dioxide emissions and is home to five of the ten worst mercury emitting power plants in the country. Rather than try to do something about this, Perry sued the federal government to try to avoid complying an EPA ruling that the state was in violation of the Clean Air Act. A proud climate change denier, Perry called the 2010 BP oil spill an “act of God” while speaking at a trade association funded by BP. And his solution to the nation’s economic ills in 2011: more oil drilling. 2. He executed a likely innocent man and impeded an investigation into the matter. In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Huntsville, Texas after being convicted of arson and the murder of his three children. Despite significant evidence that arson had not caused the fire (thus exonerating Willingham), Perry refused to grant a stay of execution. Five years after Willingham was executed, a report from a Texas Forensic Science Commission investigator found that the fire could not have been arson. As the commission prepared to hear testimony from the investigator in October 2009, Perry fired and replaced three of its members, forcing an indefinite delay in the process. With a record of executing juveniles and mentally disabled, Perry said in a 2011 GOP presidential debate that he had “never struggled” at all with his decisions to administer the death penalty to more than 230 people. 3. He actively sought to dismantle Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Perry argued that Texas and other states should be able to opt out of federal entitlements like Medicaid and Social Security — even though such a move would actually cost his own state’s economy billions of dollars. Despite their popularity and success, he called these programs and Medicare “Ponzi schemes,” and suggested they are actually unconstitutional. 4. He consistently backed legislation to restrict women’s reproductive rights. Perry has made news in recent weeks for his embarrassing attacks on State Senator Wendy Davis (D) and his efforts to ram through a likely unconstitutional bill to shut down the vast majority of Texas clinics that provide abortion. But his attacks on women’s reproductive choice are nothing new; in 2011 he pushed for and signed “emergency legislation” to require women to have unnecessary sonograms prior to abortions. 5. He demonized LGBT Texans and worked to increase legal discrimination against them. Perry was staunch defender of Texas’ unconstitutional anti-sodomy law which criminalized the private consensual sexual behavior of adults. After the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas, Perry called ban “appropriate,” and blasted the Court decision as the result of “nine oligarchs in robes.” As a presidential candidate, he ran a shockingly anti-gay ad, blasting open service by gay and lesbian members of the Armed Services as part of President Obama’s “war on religion.” He vocally opposed the Boy Scouts of America’s half-measure allowing openly gay Scouts but not leaders, claiming the tiny step “contradicts generations of tradition in the name of political correctness.” Even in his speech Monday, he proudly boasted that Texas had defended “the sanctity of marriage” by writing discrimination into the state’s constitution. 6. He backed nullification of federal laws and even raised the prospect of secession. Perry rose to national prominence in 2009 when he threatened to have Texas secede from the United States. “If Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that,” Perry told reporters after a Tea Party event. He also signed nullification legislation — a state law that portends to undo federal law, despite the Constitution’s clear guarantee of federal supremacy — as governor, the likes of which were used by secessionists in the 19th Century. 7. He refused to let the federal government provide healthcare for low-income Texans, despite the highest rate of uninsured residents in the country. Health care in Texas is abysmal. More than 25 percent of Texans — 6,234,900 people and growing — lack health coverage, the highest of any state in the country. However, when Obamacare was passed and offered millions of dollars in federal money to expand Medicaid and cover poor Texans, Perry rejected the offer even though it wouldn’t cost Texas a dime for at least three years. Despite his state’s awful track record on covering low-income residents, Perry claimed that Texas has the “best health care in the country.” 8. He vetoed bipartisan Equal Pay legislation to protect Texas women. Though women, on average, continue to earn 77 cents for every dollar men make, Perry vetoed legislation that would have helped women fight discrimination. The bill, HB 950, which passed the Republican-held Texas legislature, would have built on the federal Lilly Ledbetter Act. Perry, worrying that the bill would lead to regulations, vetoed the measure. 9. He called for repeal of the 16th and 17th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, to end popular election of Senators and the federal income tax. In his book Fed Up!, Perry said that both the 16th and 17th Amendments were “mistaken” and should be repealed. The 16th Amendment allows the federal government to collect income taxes and accounts for 45 percent of all revenue, while the 17th Amendment allows voters, rather than state legislatures, to choose their U.S. senators. Perry opposed both amendments, saying they were merely passed in “a fit of populist rage.”
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So, what are you going to do to fix the problem? Let's set down the liberal talking points and form solutions. Do you even believe in hell anyway?
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I don't see where liberals not caring about jobs came into the conversation. I care about jobs but at what cost? Don't forget that Texas had more in gov aid and subsidies than they gave back in taxes #thanksobama.
You need to quit seeing everything in black and white. Of course a "typical" liberal cares about jobs. Just not at the expense of---well, practically everything. Perry's mantra generally must be: F*** teachers and education (the same education that might help him string together two or three intelligible sentences or get through a debate without forgetting his own name). F*** the environment. F*** ALL regulation (the kind of attitude that led the residents of West, Texas to keep calling the owner of the KABOOM! plant a "nice guy", even after the explosion that had basically leveled their town). F*** basically everything that doesn't line my pockets or help out my cronies. I'm all for jobs, of course. But his priorities are funny. He drastically cut money for education and then disingenuously looks at the cameras with, "I didn't say to fire teachers; where did I say fire teachers? Hey, let's just use vouchers. Vouchers vouchers vouchers...." His cuts laid off 12,000 teachers and, I think it was 15,000 other staff.
Texas is the number 1 state for wind power, and the place where shale fracking was discovered, which is dramatically reducing greenhouse emissions. ...and then you blame West on Perry? That would have happened even under California's law. do your homework next time
I get it now...the only reason you and Basso have such large greenpeens is because you just trade rep with each other. There is no way there are enough inbred trailer dwellers to rep you so often.
stick to the topic or leave I'm no inbred trailer dweller. When you have to resort to insults, you've lost any argument. I'll be the bigger man and not respond in the same manner to you.
Actually this was discovered in 1947, by Floyd Farris. First experiments done in Kansas a year later, then in 1970 Halliburton started doing it in Oklahoma. 1997 was when George Mitchell "modernized" it. Regardless none of these things have to do with perry, since he was years away from being in office. It is great that we have #1 wind power, but that doesn't mean we can work on having a cleaner environment while still building business and jobs.
The revolution in fracking came with horizontal fracking from Halliburton in ND. This caused the explosion the we are seeing in the past couple of years.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Crowds assembling in San Antonio's Plaza Juarez where TX AG, Greg Abbott's, will announce his candidacy today. <a href="http://t.co/VFD32Yn7Yi" title="http://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/356454199451594756/photo/1">pic.twitter.com/VFD32Yn7Yi</a></p>— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) <a href="https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/356454199451594756" data-datetime="2013-07-14T16:44:38+00:00">July 14, 2013</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
